The ten year anniversary of Killgrave's control of Jessica is coming up, coinciding with a batch of horrible migraines, the trial of Killgrave's practice victim, Jessica's trying to give up coffee ... and a bunch of Jessica variants from other dimensions suddenly appearing at her home.

Noto's artwork is good, particularly selling the facial expressions and emotions of the characters at all times. Simone (unsurprisingly) writes an excellent Jessica Jones, her voice and personality consistently on point, funny and hitting all the right emotional beats. The A-plot of her lingering issues wit the Purple Man is also terrific. The B-plot ... well, for a multiversal hijinks storyline, it is fine -- considerably better than I would expect, honestly, but nothing special. I can't help but feel this would have been a much stronger book if doing entirely without this gimmick, and simply fleshing out Jessica, the character of Maria Snyder, and the dread of Killgrave's spectre in their minds.

Even so, this is a good read, and recommended to most Jones fans. The only thing I'm missing is the noir, private eye angle that has served the character so well previously, but for a short collection with a huge sci-fi premise, that would have felt shoe-horned in any case. ( )

I had to grit my teeth when yet another Jessica Jones book began with the return of the Purple Man. (Can we put him in a box and set him aside for a good long while, please?) But the story slowly moves Zebadiah KIllgrave to the side as Jessica gets increasingly involved with her alternate reality doppelgängers -- the multiversal "variants" of the title -- who suddenly start popping up.

The required slugfests upon first meeting lead to a Jessica Jones support group with some humorous one-upmanship for who has it the worst and who can be trusted the least.

What really lifts the story though are its Luke Cage moments. He steals the scene every time he shows up, from introducing someone to the most dangerous real estate in the world, to being kinder to a woman on an elevator than she is to him, to being "damn bulletproof."

Jessica is at her best when she is with Luke, and all those sad variants are just gonna have to be jealous of that. ( )